Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)

A Register Of His Papers, 1920-1977
At Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

Prepared By Vladimir Von Tsurikov

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, New York
2007

© 2007 Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title:
Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov) Papers, 1920-1977

Creator:
Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)

Extent:
6 manuscript boxes

Repository:
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
P.O. Box 36, Jordanville, New York, 13361
Phone/Fax: (315) 858-0945
Email: info@hts.edu
http://www.hts.edu

Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of Viktor Andreevich Konovalov, a self-proclaimed missionary of Canada in emigration, and later a Russian Orthodox monk and abbot of the Pokrov Skete in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada. Konovalov’s rich CORRESPONDENCE includes letters to and from prominent hierarchs of the Russian diaspora, located throughout the world, and provides a significant source for information on Russian Orthodoxy in North America in the Interwar years as well as in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In addition, Konovalov’s papers present a valuable record of the functioning and economic struggles of the Pokrov Skete in Alberta, Canada.

Language:
Russian, English

Biographical Note

1890

Born Victor Andreevich Konovalov, St. Petersburg, Russia

1920

Evacuated to Constantinople

1963

Author, Istina i apostasiia

1971

Died, Jordanville, NY

Scope And Content Note

This collection contains the papers of Viktor Andreevich Konovalov, a self-proclaimed missionary of Canada in emigration, and later a Russian Orthodox monk and abbot of the Pokrov Skete in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada. Konovalov’s rich CORRESPONDENCE includes letters to and from prominent hierarchs of the Russian diaspora, located throughout the world, and provides a significant source for information on Russian Orthodoxy in North America in the Interwar years as well as in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In addition, Konovalov’s papers present a valuable record of the functioning and economic struggles of the Pokrov Skete in Alberta, Canada.

The SPEECHES AND WRITINGS file reflects the personal interests of Fr. Amvrosii, which included eschatological research as well as studies of holy fathers and church history. The SUBJECT FILE materials relating to the history of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, including an almost complete collection of “Tserkovnyia viedomosti,” the official ecclesiastical periodical of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia during the Interwar years.

Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Holy Trinity Seminary. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is appended to this register. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Series Description

Box
Nos

Series

1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1920-1962. Includes ecclesiastical documents, military record, will. Arranged alphabetically by physical form

1-5

CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-1965 and undated. Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

5

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1922-1977 and undated. Announcements, appeals, articles, greetings, notebooks, notes, open letters, and sermons, arranged chronologically by title

6

SUBJECT FILE, 1922-1963 and undated. Curriculum vitae of diocesan clergy, brochures, inventories, leaflets, minutes, notes, periodical, personal documents and certificates, arranged alphabetically by subject

6

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1948-1963 and undated. Ten prints depicting Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)

Container List

Box Nos

Folder Nos

Contents

1.

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1920-1962

1

Ecclesiastical certificates, 1922-1923

2

Military record, 1920

3

Will, 1938-1962

CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-1965 and undated

General

General

4

1923-1949 and undated

5

1950-1964

6

Mount Athos, 1924-1961. Includes correspondence with various monks from different monasteries on Mount Athos

Russian Orthodox Church

7

1923-1949 and undated

8

1950-1963

9

Afanasii (Martos), Archbishop, 1961 and undated

10

Aggei (?), Archimandrite, 1947-1961

11

Aleksandrov, Nikolai N., 1947-1961

2.

1

Anastasii (Gribanovskii), Metropolitan, 1922-1962

2

Andreevskii, Ivan Mikhailovich, 1949-1962

3

Antonii (Khrapovitskii), Metropolitan, 1932-1933 and undated

4

Antonii (Sinkevich), Archbishop, 1961-1965 and undated

5

Apollinarii (Koshevoi), Archbishop, 1927-1939

6

Ariadna (Michurina), Abbess, 1948-1956

7

Arsenii (Chakhovtsev), Bishop, 1930-1931 and undated

8

Averkii (Taushev), Archbishop, 1955-1965

9

Baranova-Popova, ?, 1950

10

Bari, Sofiia Nikolaevna, 1947-1950

11

Borzov, Nikolai Viktorovich, 1951 and undated

12

Brazol’, Boris L’vovich, 1948 and undated

13

Buketov, Feofan, Reverend, 1948-1950

14

Burdykov, Georgii, Reverend, 1933-1949

15

Chagaida, Onufrii, 1948-1951

16

Chernavin, Ioann, Reverend, 1946-1948 and undated

17

Chervinskii, Evgenii, Reverend, undated

18

Danil’chik, Mikhail, Reverend, 1931-1933 and undated

19

Demchuk, Mr., 1947

20

Demidov, Vasilii, Reverend, 1947-1948 and undated

21

Deputatov, Nikolai Mikhailovich, 1941 and undated

22

Diakonik, Ilarion, 1949

23

Dionisii (Valedinskii), Metropolitan, 1932 and undated

24

Dydik, Leontii and Anna, undated

25

Feodosii (Samoilovich), Archbishop, 1931-1965

26

Feofan (Bystrov), Archbishop, 1932

27

Filaret (Voznesenskii), Metropolitan, 1965

28

Gerasim (Shmal’ts), Archimandrite, (1946-1951 and undated

29

Grabbe, Georgii, Reverend, 1952-1959

3.

1

Grigor’, Ioann, Reverend, 1932-1965 and undated

2

Grinenko, Vladimir Kharitonovich, 1955

3

Holy Trinity Monastery, 1946-1960 and undated

4

Iakushin, Petr Mitrofanovich, 1947-1949

5

Ieronim (Chernov), Archbishop, 1938-1948

6

Ioasaf (Skorodumov), Archbishop, 1922-1958

7

Kalinovskii, Anton Grigorievich, 1947-1951 and undated

8

Kappanadzi, Ioason, Reverend, 1946-1948 and undated

9

Kharit, Filip Vasilievich, 1946

10

Kiziun, Aleksandr, Reverend, 1928

11

Kokhanik, Petr, Reverend, 1947-1952 and undated

12

Komarnitskii, Nikanor, Reverend, 1932-1961

13

Konon-Ivashkevich, Mr., 1951

14

Konstantin (Zaitsev), Archimandrite, 1935-1962

15

Kontsevich, Elena Iur’evna and Ivan Mikhailovich, 1948-1963 and undated

16

Krupenskii, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1927-1930

17

Kryzhanovskii, Nikolai Antonovich, 1940

18

Kutepov, Aleksei Pavlovich, 1929

19

Kuterev, Boris Leonidovich, 1950

20

Ladinskii, Leonid, Reverend, 1956 and undated

21

Lavr (Shkurla), Abbot (later Archbishop and Metropolitan), 1958-1961

22

Lebedev, Manuil, Reverend, 1932

23

Legkii, Ioann, Reverend, 1951 and undated

24

Lekhovich, Vladimir Andreevich, 1928-1929 and undated. Includes newspaper clipping and letter from General A. P. Kutepov to Lekhovich

25

Leontii (Bartoshevich), Archimandrite, 1945-1948 and undated

26

Leontii (Filippovich), Archbishop, 1957-1961

27

Levitskii, N., Reverend, 1951

28

Lototskii, Dimitrii Vasilievich, undated

29

Maloshev, Mr., 1949

30

Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, 1939

31

Maslov, Diodor Nikolaevich, 1949

4.

1

Meletii (Zaborovskii), Metropolitan, 1941

2

Merzheevskii, Vladimir Danilovich, 1957-1963

3

Mikhailov, Vasilii, Reverend, undated

4

Miller, Evgenii Karlovich, General, 1929

5

Mishukov, Aleksandr Feodorovich, 1943-1947 and undated

6

Morozov, Ivan, 1933-1934

7

Nikolai (Karpov), Bishop, 1932

8

Nikon (Rklitskii), Bishop, 1936-1964

9

Panteleev, Sergii, Reverend, 1940-1961

10

Panteleimon (Rudyk), Archbishop, 1955

11

Platon (Rozhdestvenskii), Metropolitan, 1926 and undated

12

Poliakov, Sergei, 1924

13

Polonskii, Sergei Pavlovich, 1959-1965 and undated. Includes photograph of Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)

14

Pol’skii, Mikhail, Reverend, 1949-1957

15

Rimarenko, Adrian, Reverend (later Bishop), 1959-1962

16

Romanov, V. S., 1949-1950

17

Rybakov, Nikolai Pavlovich, 1932-1959

18

Sabo, Georgii, 1948-1952

19

Savva (Sarachevich), Bishop, 1958-1961

20

Serafim (Ivanov), Archbishop, 1932-1961

21

Serafim (Svezhevskii), Bishop, 1951

22

Shaliakin, Feodor Gavrilovich, 1946-1952

23

Shaposhnikov, Vasilii, Reverend, 1940-1941

24

Sharov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, 1946

25

Shomin, M. I., 1948-1949

26

Solada, Mikhail, 1958

27

Sul’zhikov, Aleksandr Viktorovich, 1927-1933

28

Sumarokov, Evgenii Nikolaevich, 1941

29

Starukhin, Marko, 1947-1948

30

Stepanov, Nikolai, 1949

5.

1

Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, 1928-1959

2

Teliatnikov, N., undated

3

Tikhon (Liashchenko), Bishop, 1932

4

Tikhon (Troitskii), Archbishop, 1931-1961

5

Tsuglevich, Aleksandr, Reverend, 1930-1935

6

Turianitsa, Mikhail Il’ich, 1964 and undated

7

Urusova, Nataliia Vladimirovna, 1958-1961

8

Varshavskii, Sigizmund, 1948-1951

9

Vdovichenko, Petr, Reverend, 1932-1933

10

Venedikt (Bobkovskii), Bishop, 1951

11

Vitalii (Maksimenko), Archbishop, 1939-1951

12

Vitalii (Ustinov), Bishop, 1934-1967

13

Vorobets, Sergei Lukich and Dominika Iosifovna, 1946-1952 and undated

14

Zavalishin, Boris Arkadievich, 1947 and undated. Includes signed typescript entitled “Nash pozor”

15

Znamenskii, Aleksandr, Reverend, 1946-1951 and undated

16

Znamenskii, Georgii, 1947 and undated

17

Zosima (?), Archimandrite, 1948-1949 and undated

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1922-1977 and undated

General

18

Announcements, appeals, greetings, 1946-1961 and undated. Typescripts, printed copy and holographs

19

Articles, 1951-1963 and undated. Typescripts

20

Letters to the editor, 1932-1961

21

Notebook, undated. Holograph

Notes

22

General, 1933-1964 and undated. Holographs and typescripts

23

Lives of saints, undated. Typescripts

24

Open letters, 1922-1933. Typescripts

25

Sermons, 1945-1962 and undated. Holographs and typescripts

26

Speeches, undated. Typescript

27

“Fra Ieronim Savaranola – neponiatyi i nepriznannyi sviatoi,” Russkaia zhizn’, 1977, Nos. 8762-8778. Printed copy

28

“Istina i apostasiia,” 1963. Printed copy

29

“Nastavleniia ieroskhimonakha Amvrosiia, startsa Optinoi pustyni,” 1940. Typescript. Includes foreword by V. Konovalov and dedication to Hierodeacon Avenir

30

“Sobytiia poslednikh dnei po svidetel’stvu sviatykh prorokov,” undated. Typescript

6.

SUBJECT FILE, 1922-1963 and undated

1

Nezym, Semen Semenovich, 1924. Personal documents and certificates

Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov’ Zagranitsei

2

General - Leaflets, 1936-1963 and undated

3

Alberta, Canada, 1931-1959 and undated. Includes curriculum vitae of diocesan clergy, lists of relics held at Pokrov skete in Bluffton, Alberta, minutes of diocesan meetings, liturgical notes

4

Iz dieianii arkhiereiskago sobora Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi Zagranitsei, 1960

5-8

Tserkovnyia viedomosti, 1922-1930. Includes notes on missing issues and provenance

9

PHOTOGRAPHS, 1948-1963 and undated. Ten prints depicting Archimandrite Amvrosii (Konovalov)